(or even tangentially)
I will start with
"Paint a Vulgar Picture".
― the bhagavad geeta (rip van wanko), Friday, 5 November 2010 22:48 (fourteen years ago)
"Bought Myself a Liarbird" – XTC
― 17th Century Catholic Spain (Abbbottt), Friday, 5 November 2010 22:48 (fourteen years ago)
I feel like XTC made a lot of these.
Seeing the thread title, that's exactly the song I was going to nominate (xp to 1st post)
― Running the Gantelope (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Friday, 5 November 2010 22:49 (fourteen years ago)
"Funk Pop a Roll" would be another XTC one.
― 17th Century Catholic Spain (Abbbottt), Friday, 5 November 2010 22:50 (fourteen years ago)
"So You Wanna Be a Rock and Roll Star" - Byrds etc."Rock a Boy Blue", sort of - Scritti Politti
― the Ford Escort Cabriolet of middle-aged men (Noodle Vague), Friday, 5 November 2010 23:00 (fourteen years ago)
'Have A Cigar' - Pink Floyd
― Les centimètres énigmatiques (snoball), Friday, 5 November 2010 23:02 (fourteen years ago)
'When Will I Be Famous' - Bros
"You Just Haven't Earned It Yet, Baby" - Smiths
― the Ford Escort Cabriolet of middle-aged men (Noodle Vague), Friday, 5 November 2010 23:03 (fourteen years ago)
'Creeque Alley' - The Mamas & The Papas
― Les centimètres énigmatiques (snoball), Friday, 5 November 2010 23:03 (fourteen years ago)
Huge chunks of Chilly Gonzales' The Entertainist, notably "Candy" and "Futuristic Ain't Shit to Me".
― the Ford Escort Cabriolet of middle-aged men (Noodle Vague), Friday, 5 November 2010 23:05 (fourteen years ago)
Randy Newman "The Story of a Rock and Roll Band"
― Stockhausen's Helicopter Quartet (Elvis Telecom), Friday, 5 November 2010 23:10 (fourteen years ago)
"Don't Call Us, We'll Call You"
― Unfrozen Caveman Board-Lawyer (WmC), Friday, 5 November 2010 23:11 (fourteen years ago)
"Rudy Wants To Buy Yez a Drink"
"Be in My Video"
SessionmanThe Money-go-round - Both the Kinks
I'm sure there's more ...
― sonofstan, Friday, 5 November 2010 23:12 (fourteen years ago)
Are You Sure Hank Done it This Way?
― sonofstan, Friday, 5 November 2010 23:13 (fourteen years ago)
and the Ur-ist of the Ur-
Johnny B. Goode/ Go Johnny Go
― sonofstan, Friday, 5 November 2010 23:14 (fourteen years ago)
Into the Great Wide Open by Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 5 November 2010 23:14 (fourteen years ago)
"Under Assistant West Coast Promotion Man," Rolling Stones"Mercury Poisoning," Graham Parker"EMI," Sex Pistols"Workin' For MCA," Lynyrd Skynyrd"Complete Control," The Clash
― xhuxk, Friday, 5 November 2010 23:18 (fourteen years ago)
'Sleeping on the Sidewalk' - Queen
― Les centimètres énigmatiques (snoball), Friday, 5 November 2010 23:24 (fourteen years ago)
Specials - "Gangsters"
― the Ford Escort Cabriolet of middle-aged men (Noodle Vague), Friday, 5 November 2010 23:24 (fourteen years ago)
"Don't Call Us, We'll Call You," Sugarloaf"Ain't Gonna Suck Itself," Cracker"The Agony Of Lafitte," Spoon
― xhuxk, Friday, 5 November 2010 23:25 (fourteen years ago)
"the entertainer" - billy joel
― fact checking cuz, Friday, 5 November 2010 23:29 (fourteen years ago)
for against - loud and clear
― cruel bees (electricsound), Friday, 5 November 2010 23:29 (fourteen years ago)
the records - starry eyes
― cruel bees (electricsound), Friday, 5 November 2010 23:30 (fourteen years ago)
"cover of the rolling stone"- dr. hook and the medicine show
― fact checking cuz, Friday, 5 November 2010 23:30 (fourteen years ago)
"i love my label" - nick lowe
― fact checking cuz, Friday, 5 November 2010 23:31 (fourteen years ago)
"touring is never boring" - ramones
― fact checking cuz, Friday, 5 November 2010 23:32 (fourteen years ago)
"radio radio" - elvis costello
― fact checking cuz, Friday, 5 November 2010 23:33 (fourteen years ago)
"Protect Ya Neck," Wu Tang Clan (GZA verse)
― xhuxk, Friday, 5 November 2010 23:34 (fourteen years ago)
"cut yr hair" - pavement
― fact checking cuz, Friday, 5 November 2010 23:35 (fourteen years ago)
"prisoners of rock and roll" - neil young
― fact checking cuz, Friday, 5 November 2010 23:36 (fourteen years ago)
"Another Round on You" - Murder City Devils
― like a musical album. made by a band. (fucking in the streets), Friday, 5 November 2010 23:39 (fourteen years ago)
Free Man In Paris - Joni Mitchell
― kornrulez6969, Friday, 5 November 2010 23:42 (fourteen years ago)
"denmark street" - the kinks"bitter fingers" - elton john
― fact checking cuz, Friday, 5 November 2010 23:46 (fourteen years ago)
"treatment bound" - replacements
― fact checking cuz, Friday, 5 November 2010 23:48 (fourteen years ago)
Ziggy Stardust
― sonofstan, Friday, 5 November 2010 23:50 (fourteen years ago)
"Range Life" - Pavement
― the Ford Escort Cabriolet of middle-aged men (Noodle Vague), Friday, 5 November 2010 23:50 (fourteen years ago)
U.N.K.L.E. - "Getting Ahead in the Lucrative Field of Artist Management"
― skip, Friday, 5 November 2010 23:51 (fourteen years ago)
All The Way From Memphis -Mott the Hoople
― sonofstan, Friday, 5 November 2010 23:52 (fourteen years ago)
"Seymour Stein" - Belle & Sebastian
― like a musical album. made by a band. (fucking in the streets), Friday, 5 November 2010 23:55 (fourteen years ago)
let's not forget
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1gxJ7mj2uY
― like a musical album. made by a band. (fucking in the streets), Saturday, 6 November 2010 00:01 (fourteen years ago)
Destroyer - The Bad Arts
― iago g., Saturday, 6 November 2010 00:02 (fourteen years ago)
Kinks - Session Man
― iago g., Saturday, 6 November 2010 00:03 (fourteen years ago)
Minor Threat - Cashing InJoe Walsh - Life's Been Good
― xhuxk, Saturday, 6 November 2010 00:09 (fourteen years ago)
Stealers Wheel - Star
― kornrulez6969, Saturday, 6 November 2010 00:11 (fourteen years ago)
Neil Young - Crime in the City
(the first verse, anyways)
― lonely is as lonely does, lonely is an eeyore (unregistered), Saturday, 6 November 2010 00:20 (fourteen years ago)
(er, second verse, I mean)
"Everything Counts" by Depeche Mode may be interpreted to be about the music biz.
― You're Twistin' My Melody Man! (Geir Hongro), Saturday, 6 November 2010 00:21 (fourteen years ago)
i think that the majority of songs by "the chap" would fit this bill
― nonightsweats, Saturday, 6 November 2010 00:41 (fourteen years ago)
If music journalists count as part of the music biz, then "Mr. Writer" by Stereophonics.
― You're Twistin' My Melody Man! (Geir Hongro), Saturday, 6 November 2010 00:52 (fourteen years ago)
So do plenty of more famous songs, but I was assuming they don't.
Anyway:
Angry songs about the music biz
Songs about people in the music business
― xhuxk, Saturday, 6 November 2010 00:57 (fourteen years ago)
And if critic songs do count, then:
Lyrics about, or aimed at, critics
― xhuxk, Saturday, 6 November 2010 00:58 (fourteen years ago)
"fuck this town" - robbie fulks
― fact checking cuz, Saturday, 6 November 2010 01:27 (fourteen years ago)
"show business" - tribe
― so imagen what we can do with the rest of our brain...right buddy's?? (Pillbox), Saturday, 6 November 2010 01:33 (fourteen years ago)
Rough Trade - Stiff Little Fingers, though the band will try to tell you it's not about their label...
― Michael Train, Saturday, 6 November 2010 01:35 (fourteen years ago)
"The Agony of Laffitte” and “Laffitte Don’t Fail Me Now" - Spoon
― Zeno, Saturday, 6 November 2010 01:36 (fourteen years ago)
stockholm monsters - how corrupt is rough trade?regurgitator - i sucked a lot of cock to get where i am
― cruel bees (electricsound), Saturday, 6 November 2010 01:36 (fourteen years ago)
Mess Of My - The Fall
― Zeno, Saturday, 6 November 2010 01:37 (fourteen years ago)
Understandably, Badfinger had a lot of them:"Apple of My Eye""Hey Mr. Manager""Rock & Roll Contract"
Sonic Youth - "Swimsuit Issue"Neil Young & the Shocking Pinks - "Payola Blues"George Harrison - "This Song"The Clash - "Complete Control" (maybe)
― Hideous Lump, Saturday, 6 November 2010 05:50 (fourteen years ago)
'The Na Na Song' - Sheryl Crow'Don't Let Me Get Me' - Pink (Already mentioned this one in the Rolling P!nk Thread)
― That's not a "laugh track", it's an audience and you're in it. (MintIce), Sunday, 7 November 2010 22:14 (fourteen years ago)
John Fogerty - "Zanz Kant Danz"
― xhuxk, Sunday, 7 November 2010 22:38 (fourteen years ago)
The Beatles: Baby You're a Rich Man
― You're Twistin' My Melody Man! (Geir Hongro), Monday, 8 November 2010 00:47 (fourteen years ago)
Gruppo Sportivo, "I Shot My Manager"
― xhuxk, Monday, 8 November 2010 01:05 (fourteen years ago)
A Tribe Called Quest - Rap Promoter
― Fellini.Kuti, Monday, 8 November 2010 01:57 (fourteen years ago)
"Get Off the Air," Angry Samoans...Rodney Bingenheimer was pretty much an industry unto himself, so this seems to fit.
― clemenza, Monday, 8 November 2010 02:05 (fourteen years ago)
Spiderbait - "Buy me a Pony"
― Sunn O))) Sundae Smile (Trayce), Monday, 8 November 2010 02:27 (fourteen years ago)
Tractor - All Ends Up
― Up the voltage. (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Monday, 8 November 2010 02:41 (fourteen years ago)
Mark Germino and the Sluggers, "Rex Bob Lowenstein"
― Jake Brown, Monday, 8 November 2010 04:33 (fourteen years ago)
Does "the record company, Rosie, just gave me a big advance!" count?
― Jake Brown, Monday, 8 November 2010 04:34 (fourteen years ago)
Aimee Mann - Calling It Quits / Nothing Is Good Enough
― turkey, Monday, 8 November 2010 06:48 (fourteen years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26VJobcLhao&feature=related
― LeRooLeRoo, Monday, 8 November 2010 07:11 (fourteen years ago)
☠ all pigs must die ☠
― Life! The Story of Life (CaptainLorax), Monday, 8 November 2010 08:47 (fourteen years ago)
Afghan Whigs - "Neglekted"
― Ain't Gonna Play "Fist City" (sic), Monday, 8 November 2010 09:06 (fourteen years ago)
C'n'C-S Mithering - The Fall
― Millsner, Monday, 8 November 2010 13:19 (fourteen years ago)
Human League "The Black Hit Of Space"
― Kim, Wednesday, 10 November 2010 18:36 (fourteen years ago)
Dire Straits - Money for Nothing
John Stewart - Gold
― very wary hairy Barry (herb albert), Wednesday, 10 November 2010 18:47 (fourteen years ago)
Black Sabbath- The WritMotorhead-We Are the Road Crew
― Randy Moss' dog's personal chef (Bill Magill), Wednesday, 10 November 2010 19:29 (fourteen years ago)
guided by voices - game of pricksarchers of loaf - audiowhoresuperchunk - the popular music
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 10 November 2010 19:34 (fourteen years ago)
Bad Company, "Shooting Star"
― Tub Girl Time Machine (Phil D.), Wednesday, 10 November 2010 19:38 (fourteen years ago)
No one mentioned Maggie's Farm yet? Wow.
― drug stealer, Wednesday, 10 November 2010 19:40 (fourteen years ago)
gg allin - raw, brutal, rough & bloody
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 10 November 2010 20:11 (fourteen years ago)
Notorious B.I.G. - Juicy. Sorta? If the rules are loose, then probably about 87% of all rap songs.
― drug stealer, Wednesday, 10 November 2010 20:13 (fourteen years ago)
boston - rock and roll band
― mookieproof, Saturday, 20 November 2010 16:38 (fourteen years ago)
This is one of my favorites, and it can be applied to job hunting in general:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHTFyC4wksA
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Thursday, 17 November 2022 18:26 (two years ago)
I was always partial to Frankly, Mr. Shankly (The Smiths)
― Nabozo, Thursday, 17 November 2022 18:40 (two years ago)
Hah, that was my immediate thought on seeing the thread title and it was the second one anyone mentioned
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Saturday, 19 November 2022 01:19 (two years ago)
No one mentioned Travels in Nihilon so that
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Saturday, 19 November 2022 01:21 (two years ago)
Also arguably Train Running Low on Soul Coal
GZA - LabelsSuperchunk - Shallow End
― "Mick Wall at Kerrang!" (morrisp), Saturday, 19 November 2022 01:51 (two years ago)
Andrew Beaujon, "Packaging Deduction"
― gucci meme (theStalePrince), Saturday, 19 November 2022 04:30 (two years ago)
John Prine, "Onomatopoeia"
― Lily Dale, Saturday, 19 November 2022 06:07 (two years ago)
M. Ward - "Shark"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBkheAKjIKc
― Dinsdale, Saturday, 19 November 2022 19:43 (two years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FRAeFyBX1w
― link.exposing.politically (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Saturday, 19 November 2022 19:51 (two years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_roTCXelnq0
― calstars, Saturday, 19 November 2022 21:37 (two years ago)
^ Afrosmith “no surprize”
― calstars, Saturday, 19 November 2022 21:39 (two years ago)
Peter Hammill, "Two Or Three Spectres"
― lord of the rongs (anagram), Saturday, 19 November 2022 22:04 (two years ago)
The Pooh Sticks - “I Know Someone Who Knows Someone Who Knows Alan McGee Quite Well”
― Mr. Snrub, Sunday, 20 November 2022 01:14 (two years ago)
The Police - "A Sermon"Gentle Giant - "Interview"and Bachman-Turner Overdrive - "Welcome Home":
So glad we left the prairie cityAnd now we're living on the coastWe went and got ourselves a managerWe all think he's the most
― Halfway there but for you, Friday, 25 November 2022 20:07 (two years ago)